This assignment for ENGR 291 - Experimental Design and Technical Writing encourages students to investigate multiculturalism in Engineering.
Students select an individual who has made an impact on the field of Engineering and is also part of an under represented minority in the Engineering field. Students then research the individual and their contribution to the field and write a paper outlining their biography, barriers they faced, and ways the student can empathize with the individual. Some examples of individuals for paper topics include:
-
Margaret E. Knight (inventor from the 1800s)
-
Ada Lovelace (1800’s mathematician)
-
Ellen Ochoa (first female Hispanic astronaut)
-
Heddy Lamar (1900’s actress and inventor)
-
Katharine Burr Blodgett (1900s molecular engineer)
-
Edith Clarke (inventor of the calculator)
-
Marissa Mayer (first female engineer at Google)
-
Emily Warren Roebling (builder of the Brooklyn Bridge)
-
Beatrice Shilling (British mechanical engineer for Royal Aircraft in WW2)
-
Walter Braithwaite (inventor of Boeings CAD/CAM software)
-
Howard P. Grant (first black engineer to graduate from UC Berkley)
-
George Biddle Kelley (first black engineer registered in NY)
-
Aprille Ericsson (black aerospace engineer and inventor at NASA)
-
Satay Nadella (Indian American engineer and former CEO of Microsoft)
-
Lynn Conway (transgender engineer and activist)
-
Sundar Pichai (Indian American computer engineer and CEO of Google)
-
Franklin Chang-Diaz (first male Hispanic astronaut)
-
Scarlin Hernandez (aerospace engineer involved with the James Webb Space Telescope)
-
Dr. Marian Croak (inventory of VoIP technologies and VP of Engineering at Google)